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DETROIT (11/12/13) – The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will hit the road again when the Titans visit Storrs, Conn. to take on No. 18/19 UConn on Thursday (Nov. 14) at the Gampel Pavilion. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET and will be televised live on SNY and ESPN3. The game can also be heard live online on 97.1 The Ticket's webstream with the new voice of the Titans Dan Leach.

GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Titan fans can follow every UDM game this season through men's basketball GAMEDAY CENTRAL page located on the Titans Athletic Website that will keep fans one click away from all the action. This page will feature links for live stats (audio and video when applicable) as well as links for all the latest info while also making it easy to find the Titans on social media and to purchase photos and game tickets. The Game Day Central page also carries all the information on each opponent from who is leading the all-time series to who won the last game.

LAST OUTING
Detroit (1-1) tipped off its 61st season at Historic Calihan Hall with a decisive 106-51 win over the University of Michigan-Dearborn Monday night on Dick Vitale Court. Junior forward Juwan Howard, Jr. led the Titans with his second-straight double-double, while sophomore guard Anton Wilson scored a career-high 21 points as the Titans reached the century mark for the first time at home since scoring 102 points against Rochester last year.

Howard scored a game-high 22 points to go along with 10 rebounds, four assists and one blocked shot, while Wilson finished with 21 points, two assists and two blocks. Freshman guard Jarod Williams had another good outing with 12 points, four rebounds and four assists, while classmate Matthew Grant pitched in 10 points, seven assists and four steals.

Senior co-captain Evan Bruinsma finished with 12 points, seven rebounds four steals and three assists, while junior forward Patrick Onwenu also scored 12 points, while grabbing nine rebounds. Senior center Ugochukwu Njoku also grabbed nine boards, while matching a career-high with eight points and five blocked shots.

Detroit shot a season-high 52.3 percent (34-of-65) overall, including 43.5 percent (10-of-23) from downtown, while holding Dearborn to 33.3 percent (21-of-63) overall, including 35.0 percent (7-of-20) from beyond the arc. The Titans grabbed 52 rebounds and forced 21 Wolverine turnovers, while dishing out 23 assists with 14 steals and 13 blocked shots on the night.

ABOUT No. 18/19 UCONN
No. 18/19 ranked UConn (2-0) enters Thursday's game following a historic performance from senior guard Shabazz Napier in an 80-62 win over Yale on Monday. Napier recorded just the 10th triple-double in UConn history after finishing with 14 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. This is Napier's second triple-double of his career.
Omar Calhoun had a game-high18 points and Niels Giffey added 15, all of them in the first half, for UConn. He and Calhoun combined for eight of the Huskies' 11 3-pointers. Ryan Boatright hit two more and finished with 14 points for the Huskies.
UConn held Yale to just 31 percent shooting, while shooting better than 56 percent. But the Bulldogs outrebounded the Huskies 43-31 and 22-4 on the offensive end.

CLEANING THE GLASS
Through the first two games of the 2013-14 season the Titans are averaging 51.5 rebounds per game, including 22.5 on the offensive glass, both are the best in the Horizon League. The 51 and 52 rebounds are the most in game for the Titans since grabbing 50 against Concordia on Nov. 18, 2011.

Just to note Detroit's school record for rebounds in one game is 77 set against Central Michigan on Jan. 30, 1960.

LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF
Detroit freshman guard Jarod Williams has made the most out of his first two collegiate games as he finished with 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting with three rebounds in the season opener at South Alabama. Before finishing with 12 points with four rebounds, four assists and one blocked shot in the 106-51 win over U-M Dearborn. Williams is the first true Titan freshman to score in double figures in his first two collegiate games during the Coach McCallum Era.

BLOCK PARTY
The Titans have recorded 20 blocked shots through their first two games including 13 against U-M Dearborn on Monday. The 13 blocked shots are the most for the Titans since swatting 17 against Western Michigan in 1978.

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Juwan Howard, Jr. opened his junior campaign with 18 points and 11 rebounds at South Alabama, before dropping in 22 points, while grabbing 10 boards against U-M Dearborn on Monday. Howard is the first Titan to open a season with back-to-back double-doubles since Eli Holman did in 2010.

NO RESPECT
Coming off a season in which it made the NIT for the seventh time in school history as well as a postseason tournament for the second-straight year, UDM was picked to finish eighth in the HL preseason poll - voted on by the league's coaches, sports information directors and media members. The annual poll, along with the preseason teams, were unveiled at the Horizon League Media Day at the InterContinental Hotel in Chicago.

Green Bay was selected as the favorite to win the league with 21 first place votes and 390 points overall, while Wright State was picked to finish second with 389 points, including 22 first place votes. Cleveland State was slated to place third with 338 points and two first-place votes.

Oakland is projected to finish fourth totaling 258 points, ahead of fifth-place Youngstown State's 219 points, as both teams received one first place vote apiece. Defending Horizon League champion Valparaiso was picked sixth (205), followed by UIC (151), Detroit (141) and Milwaukee (69).

The last time Detroit was picked in the bottom half of the Horizon League in the preseason poll was the 2009-10 season when the Titans finished with a 20-14 record.

WELCOME TO THE SHOW
The Titans welcome an impressive recruiting class of five talented student-athletes in Patrick Ackerman, Paris Bass, Matthew Grant, Patrick Onwenu and Jarod Williams to the roster this year, along with sophomore guard Carlton Brundidge, who was ineligible last season after transferring from U-M. Brundidge was a four-star recruit in both Rivals.com and Scout.com and was ranked 75th in the 2011 ESPN 100 coming out of Southfield High School.

HOWARD, BRUINSMA TEAM CAPTAINS
Detroit head coach Ray McCallum has announced that senior forward Evan Bruinsma along with junior forward Juwan Howard, Jr. have been selected as team captains for the 2013-14 season.

Both Bruinsma and Howard played in 32 games last year and bring a wealth of experience to share with all the new Titans.

MOVING FORWARD
Detroit has a core of student-athletes returning who either started or participated in more than 30 games last year, including forwards Evan Bruinsma and Juwan Howard, Jr. Bruinsma played in 32 games as a junior averaging 5.6 points and 4.3 rebounds, while Howard started the first 27 games of the 2012-13 season tallying 7.6 points and 3.2 rebounds.

The frontline also includes senior centers Ugochukwu Njoku and Olumide Solanke along with senior forward Jermaine Lippert who all saw playing time last year. Njoku appeared in all 33 games last season and finished with 20 blocked shots, while Lippert played in 28 games for the Titans last season averaging 1.1 points and 1.1 rebounds per game.

SENIOR DRIVEN
This season Detroit will look upon its four seniors Evan Bruinsma, Jermaine Lippert, Ugochukwu Njoku and Olumide Solanke for leadership. Last year the four combined to play in 100 games and averaged 8.1 points, 7.6 rebounds and recorded 39 blocked shots.

MEDIA PACKAGE ANNOUNCED
The announcement was made that men's basketball games will be back on the radio on 97.1 FM The Ticket and 1270 AM. The Titans will also have at least 18 games on WADL or Comcast 900, which doesn't include the games already announced to be televised on the ESPN Family of Networks. The women will also have games on WADL and Comcast along with other Olympic sports teams.

UP NEXT
Detroit will stay on the road when the Titans visit James Madison on Tuesday (Nov. 19) at the Convention Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET with live stats and video provided on the Titans Gameday Central.